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Little porch critter
We call them rain frogs. What do you call them? Once the summer rains start, these little frogs began singing their summer song. They say “c’est chaud” over and over. Does anyone know what that means? (This is my sneaky attempt to get some of our Cajun-speaking readers to come forth!)

Homemade Cornbread
Or how I decided to bake some cornbread from scratch! While my internet is intermittent, I am forced to do things that otherwise pretty much go undone around here–like laundry, dishes, cooking, and baking. Besides the other things mentioned, here’s what I was forced to do today . . . Good old-fashioned cornbread in the…
Opening Week of Brown Shrimp Season
With the fading of last Louisiana wild yellow iris comes the budding of the brilliant pink of the Mimosa blooms and the beginning of the May brown shrimp season. Last Sunday night, dozens of small inland skimmer boats idled past the house, chug-chugging slowly down the bayou, creating as little wake as possible in patient procession to the three-mile inland waters where they would anchor for the night, and sleep until the official opening Monday morning at six.

CooNee is still a baby . . .
We’ve been trying to get CooNee to start eating cat food, softened in milk, but she just doesn’t know what to do yet. Even putting a little piece in her mouth doesn’t work. She just spits it out. Her hunger is getting more demanding, though. She used to sleep between every feeding, but now she…
Well, that's show biz!
Well, folks, they just showed the footage of the lady from Houma. However, there was nothing shown from Miah’s school. I don’t expect to see it later in the show. I could be wrong. I’m sorry, everyone, because I truly expected to see the footage on the show tonight., but as I’ve learned in TV,…

Maurepas Swamp, Part 3
The Swamp Next Door: Restoring Maurepas Swamp for Wildlife and Communities Written by Wendy Billiot for Louisiana Wildlife Federation Driving southeast from Baton Rouge on Interstate 10, many people may not realize they are driving through the second-largest contiguous coastal forest in Louisiana–the 140,000-acre Maurepas Swamp. Its southeastern boundary is near where Interstate 55 and…
Look at Baby’s face.
I know, poor thing. It’s like she’s asking, “Uh, when does my vacation start?” or “Did we have to bring the coon?”
Termite should write a book!